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Chandrasekhara Ashtakam Homa

Name: Chandrasekhara Ashtakam Homa
Brand: AstroBhava

Also spelled Chandrasekhara Ashtakam Homam

चन्द्रशेखराष्टक होमम्

Eight verses that a boy sang with death at his shoulder — offered into fire for your healing, your strength, your long and steady years.

Performed for you alone — never a group ceremony
Muhurta fixed from your own birth chart, confirmed within 24–48 working hours
Free energised yantra, sealed in a silver amulet, shipped worldwide at no charge

Choose Your Package Why This Homa

The Ritual and Its Weight

The Chandrasekhara Ashtakam is Markandeya's hymn. The tradition tells it plainly: a child whose span was measured in years clung to the Shivalinga and sang eight verses to the Lord who wears the crescent moon. Fear left him. In the Chandrasekhara Ashtakam Homa, those same verses are not merely recited — they are offered, syllable by syllable, into a consecrated fire kindled in your name and gotra.

This is a Maha-tier rite, and it is placed in the Health category for a reason. Devotees turn to the chandrasekhara ashtakam homam when a body has been worn thin by long illness, when recovery is slow, when the household wants Shiva's shelter over an ageing parent or a convalescing child. Agni carries each ahuti; the hymn's refrain — pahi mam, raksha mam — becomes the shape of the whole morning.

चन्द्रशेखर चन्द्रशेखर चन्द्रशेखर पाहि माम् । चन्द्रशेखर चन्द्रशेखर चन्द्रशेखर रक्ष माम् ॥ O Shiva who wears the crescent moon upon your head, protect me; O Chandrasekhara, shelter and preserve me.

Why Devotees Book This

Shiva as Chandrasekhara is the stillness that fear cannot enter. Devotees bring these prayers to the fire:

Support through recovery

Offered when someone is convalescing after illness, surgery or a long treatment, asking Shiva's grace over the slow work of getting well.

Relief sought from chronic complaints

Families who have lived with a recurring, wearying condition bring it to this fire and place it in the Lord's hands.

Vitality and ojas

The tradition invokes Chandrasekhara for the cool, steady strength the crescent moon signifies — energy that does not burn itself out.

Ayush and longevity

Markandeya's hymn is the classical prayer for a long span. Households offer it for elders, for parents, and on birth-star days.

Freedom from fear

Illness frightens the mind before it tires the body. The refrain raksha mam is chanted for courage and an unshaken heart.

Protective shelter for the household

The homa is also taken up for the whole family's wellbeing, that the year pass without upheaval under Shiva's watch.

Brahmashree Shivaaya, Guru and Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions at AstroBhava — **Brahmashree Shivaaya**Guru, Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions

Who performs your homa

Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya

Every priest who performs your Chandrasekhara Ashtakam Homa is trained in a traditional Padashala and personally recruited by Brahmashree Shivaaya — Guru and Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions at AstroBhava. Your ritual is conducted at our own Yagna Ashram — never a rented venue — with temple rites performed across our seven temples in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Meet our priests →

Certified Vedic priests — trained in traditional Padashalas
100% Agama Vidhi — as prescribed in the scriptures
Individual, never group — one ritual, one devotee's sankalpa
Muhurta from your chart — date fixed to your birth details
Free worldwide delivery — prasadam & energised yantra

Before you book

What a Maha Homa is

Not every fire ritual is performed at the same scale. A Maha Homa is our largest form. This is what that means.

Performed at full scale

More priests, and a fire that burns for as long as the rite itself requires rather than a shortened sitting. The exact figures for this rite are stated with its price above.

Chanted complete

The whole sequence the rite calls for, in unison, never a representative portion of it and never chanted in rotation.

Telecast entire

Every minute, from the sankalpa in which your name is spoken to the final aarti. Nothing is performed off camera.

A Maha Homa is performed for one devotee and their named family, exactly like any homa we conduct. What the scale changes is the weight of the offering, and it is reserved for the intentions that warrant it.

Book your Chandrasekhara Ashtakam Homa

One rite, one price

There is nothing to choose. Unlike most of our homas, the Chandrasekhara Ashtakam Homa is not offered at several priest counts. It is performed one way, as the rite requires — 5 priests, 5 hours — with the free energised Vishnu Yantra sealed in its silver amulet, the live telecast, and free worldwide delivery of your prasadam all included in the one price.

Your bookingChandrasekhara Ashtakam Homa5 Priests · 5 hours · free energised yantra

₹197,350

All-inclusive — no shipping charges, no additions at checkout. See everything included →

You book — and send birth details at checkout.

Within 24–48 working hours — your muhurta is confirmed by email.

The day before — your telecast link arrives by email.

After the homa — tracking email with your personal time to wear the yantra.

Sacred Timing

Any day sanctified to Shiva suits this homa. These are the occasions our priests favour:

Pradosham

The twilight hour of Trayodashi, when Shiva is said to dance between the worlds. The most sought-after slot for the Chandrasekhara Ashtakam Homa.

Somavara — Mondays

Monday belongs to the moon, and the moon rests on Shiva's brow. A natural day for prayers of healing and cooling strength.

Maha Shivaratri

The great night of Shiva, when the hymn is offered for longevity and for deep, sustained devotion.

Ardra or your birth nakshatra

Ardra is Rudra's own star; many devotees also choose the janma nakshatra of the person the homa is offered for.

Every package, and the 48-day option

What you receive

The sealing of the yantra

When your homa concludes, the yantra that stood in the fire is rolled and locked inside its silver amulet according to Agama vidhi — the practice by which the energies raised in a ritual are held within a consecrated object rather than dispersing. It is why a homa performed at our ashram can still reach a devotee ten thousand miles away: what the fire raised travels to you, sealed.

Personal sankalpa

Your name, gotra & nakshatra — for you and up to five family members.

Live telecast

Watch your own homa in real time from the ashram. Streamed openly on our YouTube channel by default — or request a private, unlisted telecast at checkout.

Free energised Chandrasekhara Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet

Consecrated over three days — Jala (holy-water consecration with mantras), Prana (life force through pranayama & chants) and Jeeva Pratishta (awakened with 108 recitations & offerings) — then present through your homa, receiving the energies raised in the fire. Immediately afterwards it is rolled and sealed inside a silver amulet by Agamic rite, locking those energies within, and shipped to you with your prasadam.

Prasadam, shipped free

Sacred vibhuti, sandalwood powder & kumkum from your fire — delivered to any country.

48-Day Anushthan (optional)

Daily temple worship for 48 days — the 27 Nakshatras + 12 Rashis + 9 Planets — then sealed in a silver amulet of approximately 2–4 inches.

A note on sacred tradition

As per strict Agama vidhi, no videography is permitted inside the temple sanctum — this preserves the pure sacred energies and undisturbed divine focus of the ritual. The main homa is respectfully telecast live from outside the sanctum; the daily rituals of the 48-day Anushthan are performed with full devotion but are not telecast.

Homas are telecast openly on our YouTube channel so that devotees everywhere may witness the rituals — and because we believe you should be able to see our work before you trust us with yours. Your sankalpa names you and your family, so if you would rather your ceremony were not public, choose the private telecast option at checkout and it is streamed as an unlisted link visible only to you.

We state this plainly — transparency about what tradition forbids filming, and about what is public, is part of performing these rituals honestly.

After it arrives

How to wear your energised Chandrasekhara Yantra

The energised yantra is carefully rolled and sealed inside a sacred silver amulet before shipping. Wearing it is itself a small ritual — and even its timing is set for you personally.

Your auspicious time to wear it

Our astrologer marks the auspicious date and time to wear the yantra according to your birth details — sent to you in the email carrying your shipment's tracking number.

Purify the amulet

Dip the silver amulet in raw milk or Ganga jal for an hour before wearing, then clean with normal water.

Face East or North

Perform the wearing process facing east or north for maximum benefit.

Offer dheep & dhoop

Show lamp and incense to the amulet before wearing it.

Wear it

Around your neck or waist, on a thread or chain.

Keep the energy intact

Repeated offering of dheep and dhoop keeps the energisation alive.

If you prefer not to wear it

Place the amulet at your puja altar, or keep it in your wallet.

Inside the fire ritual

How your Chandrasekhara Ashtakam Homa is performed

Sankalpa

The priest states your name, gotra and nakshatra — and those of up to five family members — with the intention this homa is performed for.

Ganapati Puja

The customary invocation to Ganapati, clearing obstacles before the goddess is approached.

Agni Pratishtha

The fire is consecrated in the homa kunda and Agni invoked as the carrier of every offering that follows.

Chandrasekhara Avahana

The Chandrasekhara Sukta and Chandrasekhara Gayatri are chanted, inviting the goddess's presence into the fire — by one, three or five priests as your package sets.

Ahuti

Ghee, white flowers, akshata and honey are offered in sequence with mantra — the offerings traditional to her worship.

Purnahuti

The final complete offering seals the sankalpa stated at the opening.

Aarti & Dispatch

Aarti is performed live on your telecast. Vibhuti, sandalwood powder, kumkum and your energised yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.

Who is invoked

Chandrasekhara — the goddess of knowledge itself

Chandrasekhara is one of the Tridevi and the mother of the Vedas — the presiding deity of knowledge, learning, memory, speech, music and every art. She is depicted in white upon a white lotus, holding the veena, a book, a rosary and a water pot, with the swan of discernment beside her.

In this homa, her grace — Chandrasekhara Kataksham — is invoked through fire with your own name and birth details spoken in the sankalpa.

The complete guide

Chandrasekhara: story, mantras & how to chant

Her full mythology, the beeja mantra and Chandrasekhara Gayatri word by word, and how devotees chant at home — on our Chandrasekhara Mantra guide.

Read the Mantra Guide →

Questions

Frequently asked

It is a fire ritual built around the Chandrasekhara Ashtakam, the eight-verse hymn the sage Markandeya sang to Lord Shiva, the one who bears the crescent moon in his matted hair. Each verse ends in the plea pahi mam, raksha mam — protect me, preserve me. In the homa, the hymn is chanted and offered into consecrated fire with ghee, bilva and herbs. Because the hymn is remembered as Markandeya's prayer for life itself, the rite has always been held as a prayer for health, ayush and Shiva's protection.

Devotees take it up during recovery from illness, for relief from long-standing and recurring ailments, for physical vitality and ojas, for longevity in elders, and for freedom from the fear that illness brings. Many also offer it simply for the household's wellbeing through the year. The tradition prescribes the rite for these purposes; the fruit rests with Lord Shiva and with your own faith and care.

Anyone may sponsor it. It is most often booked by someone recovering from a long illness or surgery, by children on behalf of ageing parents, by families living with a chronic condition, and by devotees who keep Shiva as their ishta and want the hymn offered on their birth star each year. There is no bar of age, gotra or country — you may sponsor it for yourself or name another person as the yajamana.

Pradosham twilight is the classic choice, followed by Mondays, Maha Shivaratri and Ardra nakshatra. The birth nakshatra of the person for whom it is offered is also excellent. If none of these fall soon and the need is immediate, our priests will fix a clean muhurat from the current panchanga rather than have you wait.

The priests begin with achamana, sankalpa in your name, gotra and nakshatra, and Ganapati puja to clear obstacles. Kalasha sthapana and punyahavachana follow. The homa kunda is consecrated and Agni invoked. A Shivalinga is worshipped with abhishekam and bilva patra. The eight verses of the Chandrasekhara Ashtakam are then chanted in sequence with ahutis of cow ghee, bilva leaves, samidha of palasha and audumbara, herbs, honey, sesame, rice and dry fruits. Rudram and Shiva mula mantra japa accompany the offerings. The rite closes with purnahuti, deeparadhana, prarthana for arogya and ayush, and distribution of vibhuti.

Book online from any country. Choose your package on this page and send us the name, gotra, birth star and, if you wish, the specific health prayer of the person the homa is for. Our priests perform the chandrasekhara ashtakam homam at AstroBhava's Yagna Ashram in Coimbatore on your behalf and telecast it live, so you can sit with the fire from wherever you are. Prasadam, vibhuti and an energised yantra are couriered to your address worldwide, free of shipping cost. You need not travel or attend in person.